Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tool to which overtures, threats, and finally the use of force itself are all fixed as perpetual adjuncts. Kissinger's early advocacy of negotiations, his expressed belief that a compromise could be reached with Hanoi and the NLF, were rooted in the assumption that the overpowering weight of the U. S. military stood behind America's negotiators at every step of the way. And in a situation of fixed objectives-that of the NLF and Hanoi, to bring about a revolution in their country, and that of Washington, to uphold the Saigon regime-the use of force would be bound...
...fact, the very nature of U. S. involvement in Southeast Asia had made the repeated use of force inevitable. For the American mission in Vietnam had long been a calculated, cynical enterprise; despite claims of protecting a "legitimate" government from aggressive Communism, the American goal there had become a frankly neocolonial one. For Kissinger, revolutionary ideology-no matter what its justification-was at best irrelevant and at worst harmful in the context of international conflict; to him, revolution meant not a change in the human condition but a clouding of the prospects for stability...
...anti-Communism") by saying mockingly, "Oh, sure, Communists are human. I suppose a Communist baby is still a baby." (Chuckle). Kahn's talk bristled with this sort of thing; it was a hodge-podge of airy speculation, cynical game plans, and cold-blooded technical recommendations as to how the U. S. an win in Indochina. He showed no sympathy for the victims of our bombs-although he managed to express some concern as to what might happen to poor Marshal Ky if the NLF ever got hold...
...U. S. District Judge Dixon Herman entered a plea of "not guilty" on behalf of Father Philip Berrigan and six of the seven other persons indicted with him on conspiracy charges when the defendants refused to enter pleas at their arraignment in Harrisburg yesterday...
After the arraignment, the defendants released a statement containing "a plea for the lives of the Indochinese and Americans being killed and brutalized by the war the U. S. government wages against Indochina...